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Wallowa County Chieftain
Wednesday, February 24, 2021
Circle 100 plans County-raised fi lmmaker looks at wildfi res
‘drive-by’ event
In-person
fundraiser nixed
by COVID-19
By BILL BRADSHAW
Wallowa County Chieftain
ENTERPRISE — The
annual meeting of the Cir-
cle 100 Club will not be
an in-person meeting, this
year, but there will be a
“drive-by” event instead
because of COVID-19
restrictions, according to a
press release.
The Circle 100 Club
raises money for the Wal-
lowa Valley Health Care
Foundation and this year
will hold its 10th annual
event, according to foun-
dation Director Stacy
Green.
Donors will be asked to
drive by the corner of West
Greenwood and SW Sec-
ond streets in Enterprise
from 4:30-6 p.m. Thurs-
day, March 18, where the
ladies of the foundation
board will be to collect
the standard $100 checks.
The ladies will hand out a
“goodie bag” and fl owers,
Green said. At that time,
donors will be able to learn
what the “secret” target of
the donation will be.
She said they keep it a
secret until then because,
“We’ve got to entice them
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For the Wallowa County
Chieftain
to come by.”
According to a March
2019 story in the Chieftain,
projects that Circle 100
has supported in the past
include investing in new
equipment and training
for the outpatient and che-
motherapy department at
Wallowa Memorial Hospi-
tal so more patients could
receive their treatments
here, new reclining chairs
for each patient room, a
state-of-the-art newborn
incubator to safely trans-
port newborns and infants
in an emergency and new
physical therapy equip-
ment, to name a few.
“There’s no cookies
to bake, subcommittees
to chair or ongoing meet-
ings to attend,” the press
release stated. “Just like
always, if $100 sounds
a bit steep, partner with
a friend at $50 each, and
together you make one
member.”
Checks should be made
out to the Wallowa Valley
Health Care Foundation.
Anyone unable to drive
by but who still wants
to participate can mail a
check to the foundation at
P.O. Box 53, Enterprise,
OR 97828.
Those planning to
drive by are asked to
RSVP the foundation at
541-426-1913.
WALLOWA COUNTY
— After last summer, there’s
no doubt that the West
has entered an era of cata-
strophic forest fi res. “The
West is Burning,” a new
feature-length
documen-
tary fi lm shot, produced,
and directed by Wallowa
County native Cody Sheehy,
explores this
new era of
megafires
and offers
solutions
that
can
bring greater
prosper-
Sheehy
ity to rural
communi-
ties. It airs on Oregon Pub-
lic Broadcasting at 7 p.m.
Thursday, Feb. 25.
The fi lm was inspired
and launched by the late
Doug McDaniel.
“A key thing for Doug
was how management prac-
tices, management objec-
tives and market values have
changed,” said Nils Chris-
toffersen, executive direc-
tor of Wallowa Resources.
“A lot of private landown-
ers in Eastern Oregon are
good examples of how we
can do forest stewardship,
protect wildlife and salmon
habitat, reduce fi re risk, and
still make some money from
(our land). We wanted to …
create a movie that put this
story in front of people.”
Wallowa
Resources
served as a launching pad
and home base for the
project.
“We pulled this together
on a fairly tight budget
thanks to the support of
the University of Arizona
and a lot of colleagues and
friends across the West who
we’ve worked with for two
decades,”
Christoffersen
said.
They engaged Sheehy,
a Wallowa-born fi lmmaker
Contributed Photo
“The West is Burning,” shot, produced and directed by Wallowa County native Cody Sheehy,
examines why megafi res have become annual catastrophes across the West and what we can
do about them. It airs on Oregon Public Broadcasting Thursday, Feb. 25, 2021.
who holds a master’s degree
in range ecology and has
won two Emmys for his
documentaries.
“If you want to get a story
in front of as many people as
possible, you need to frame
it around what is attract-
ing the most public, polit-
ical and media attention,”
Sheehy told Christoffersen.
And so, they focused on
recent megafi res.
“As a kid, growing up in
a former logging town … we
didn’t have fi res like this,”
Sheehy said. “… I wanted to
know what had changed and
what we could do about it.”
The fi lm, two years in
the making, begins with
the catastrophic wildfi res
in California and Oregon
from 2015-20, including the
110,000-acre Canyon Creek
Complex fi re near John Day,
then moves into how prac-
tices in forest management
have changed over time. It
also explores community
actions that are reducing
catastrophic wildfi re risk
and opportunities to revital-
ize rural economies. Those
include new forest prod-
ucts, from biochar to new
innovations like nanocrys-
talline cellulose made from
wood pulp that can be used
in the clear part of windows
as tuneable refl ective fi lters
in smart windows.
“Some of these are pretty
exciting,”
Christoffersen
said.
Mark Webb, executive
director of the Blue Moun-
tain Forest Partners and a
former Grant County judge,
is included among those
looking to improve forest
management practices and
economic
opportunities.
His community was hit hard
by the 2015 Canyon Creek
Complex fi re.
“I think the general mes-
sage (of the fi lm) is right,”
Webb said. “The status quo
is unacceptable. We can’t
continue to move forward
without changing how we
manage our landscapes.
That’s going to require a
change in attitude as well as
new partnerships and rela-
tionships and acknowledg-
ing that maybe we got some
things wrong in the past.”
Wallowa Resources is
developing
educational
guides so the fi lm can be
used in the classroom. There
are also plans to offer Film-
stacker, a video platform for
collaborative storytelling, to
generate community-based
learning and action.
“We have to see wild-
fi re — both prescribed fi re
and some small-intensity
fi res — as a tool,” Christ-
offersen said. “We need to
thin, do forest management,
follow up with prescribed
burns and commit to main-
tenance. … Future forests
will be more open than we
are used to, and people will
have to adapt to more smoke
and more low-severity fi re.”
“What it means to take
care of the land and live on
the land needs to be rad-
ically reevaluated as we
go forward,” Webb added.
“We need to fi gure out how
to accommodate our inter-
ests to meet the needs of
the landscape. And when
we do that, we’re going to
have sustainable communi-
ties and we’re going to be
able to address all kinds of
challenges.”
Josephy Center exhibit to focus on ‘Motherhood’
Chieftain staff
JOSEPH — “Mother-
hood” is the theme of a
women’s exhibition to be
on display at the Josephy
Center for Arts and Cul-
ture in Joseph beginning
Friday, Feb. 26, according
to a press release.
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restrictions, there will be
no opening reception, as
with most Josephy Cen-
ter exhibits. However, the
gallery will be open from
noon to 5 p.m. Monday
through Friday and noon
to 4 p.m. on Saturday. The
exhibit runs through April
6.
“This year, we selected
the theme of mother-
hood…because 2020 has
been a tough year for
women,” the press release
stated. “COVID-19 school
closures sent women back
home to care for children,
act as teacher and mother,
all while trying to work
to keep families together.
The theme also celebrates,
honors and delves into
some of the complexities
of motherhood.”
For the past seven years,
the center has done an
open call for women’s art-
work. This year’s curator,
Aimee Jungmann, looked
through 24 artists’ work
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and selected 33 pieces that
will be on display.
“I’m really looking
forward to hanging and
setting up this exhibit,”
Jungmann said. “It will
be difficult to choose a
favorite for the Curator’s
Choice award.”
The opening will have
two awards: People’s
Choice and Curator’s
Choice with $50 prizes.
Artists include Jenni-
fer Klimsza, Jane Gle-
sne, Talia Jean Galvin and
René Fleming.
The center also plans
multiple brown bag dis-
cussions Tuesdays at noon.
Its book club will be read-
ing The Yellow House:
A Memoir, by Sarah M.
Broom, the 2019 National
Book Award Winner.
Dates are yet to be deter-
mined. Check the center’s
website at https://jose-
phy.org for updates. The
exhibit was made possible
by the Wallowa County
Soroptimist.